Sometimes the strangest of creatures can be found in the most ordinary of places.  How they get there can be a mystery.  Did they escape from some local zoo?  Maybe it used to be a pet or caged animal.  Whatever the reason, they're there.  To say they won't harm anybody is probably hoping for too much.  True, they may go completely undetected until being caught, but there is that chance that someone could get hurt.  This is a story of just such a situation.  

Becky was a young college student attending a school in Florida.  Only 19 years old and a sophomore.  She didn't have a lot of world experience.  Not to say she was stupid, far from it.  She had a 'B' average in all her classes.  She was fairly popular, yet not too popular.  She was just an ordinary girl trying to earn her degree.  The one thing she did have was her looks.  She was very attractive by modern standards.  Becky was not built like the average model, but she had beautiful brown hair and light blue eyes.  Her skin was a very light tan, mostly from being outside in the beautiful weather.  She had a curvy body, not too busty, but still very noticable.  The girl was typically seen wearing jean shorts and an orange t-shirt.  

Just about every day after class she would go to the park.  It was a very peaceful park and very large.  She followed her schedule like clockwork, never doing anything different from day-to-day.  And just about every day ended the same way, with her returning to her dorm safely to do homework.  However, one day, she decided to do something just a little different.  For the first time since starting school, Becky noticed a path she had never taken before.  Not that it was any different from any normal path in the park, it was just there and she had never seen it.  A change of scenery sounded nice to the girl, so she went down that path instead.  

The foilage was much thicker down this path.  Trees hung lower then normal and bushes were everywhere.  The setting reminded Becky of her own backyard when she was a child.  She remembered climbing trees with her younger sibblings, seeing who could get the farthest up before their parents would call them down.  The more she saw of the trees, the stronger the urge was to just re-live that childhood interest even for just a moment.  After finding a tree that was just begging to be climbed, Becky decided to do just that.  She took off her pack and slowly began to scale the tree.  The tree was quite large and quite old, she was sure she couldn't get all the way up.  Becky ended up stopping on one of the middle tree branches, sitting there and looking down on the path below.  

Little did Becky know, she had company that day.  A 30 foot long reticulated python was coiled around a branch much higher then Becky's.  Thanks to foilage and good camouflage patterns, the serpent was just about invisible to Becky.  Not only that, but the college girl was not even expecting trouble in the park.  Who would honestly be looking for snakes in a place like this?  The pythons large body slowly rotated around the branches he was in, examining his guest.  His tongue forked in and out, taking in Becky's scent.  The snake was hungry, not having eaten since his arrival in the park.  Poor Becky was his target for food.  Slowly, the python lowered itself from the branches.  

Becky remained totally oblivious to what was going on above.  She hummed a few songs, thinking back on childhood days.  A few times she thought about climbing down.  She did have homework to do and procrastinating was not the best idea.  Each time, Becky's urge to stay won out.  She took all that time to climb up, the least she could do was try to enjoy it.  At least, that's what she told herself.  

The snakes head continued to descend towards her, his tongue forking in and out with each passing second.  He was so close to her, he could almost taste the scent coming off her body.  She was now within striking range.  The serpents body was ready to move onto its unaware prey, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike.  The sound of a twig snapping above drew the females attention up, the pythons cover was blown.  Just before she screamed, the python lunged forward.  Its jaw latched onto her arm, holding her while the rest of his body piled around her.

She struggled, trying her best to push the snake off as coils slowly worked their way around her.  Pushing them off was near impossible, the snake was just far too strong.  Even after the python released its jaw, the grip the coils had on her body was just too strong.  Her struggles eventually pushed her off the branch.  The python disallowed this, his body holding to the branches above too firmly for her to fall.  She was now dangling in mid-air, the snakes body re-arranging the coils around her patiently so it could get a better squeezing grip.  

And so it began.  At first, the change was not quite noticable.  Yes, the coils were tight, but Becky could not feel the squeezing.  Then it slowly set in.  Every time she inhaled, the coils squeezed in, pushing the breathe she fought hard to hold onto out of her lungs.  Holding her breathe for small moments in attempts to trick the snake did nothing for her either.  The python continued squeezing, never letting up on its grip.  The scales rippled against her flesh, pushing inwards tighter with each passing second.  Becky's vission began to blur, the stress was just too much for her body.  The constriction process seemed to last forever.  Towards the end, Becky couldn't even inhale enough air to talk right.  

After 15 minutes of struggling, the Becky was out cold.  The python would squeeze for a little longer, making sure his prey had no means of fighting back.  Once he was satisfied, the hard part came.  Making his way up to her head, the python unhinged his jaw.  It took a moment to figure things out, but after wrapping his jaw around her head, he began to swallow her whole.  The shoulders were a bit of a challenge, but the snakes grip on its prey was at just the right angle that the shoulders went down.  Breasts and stomach were squeezed in, followed by Becky's hips.  Each swallow took the poor girl's body deeper to the snakes stomach.  Swallowing its meal took almost an hour, but once done, the snake re-alligned its jaw.  The only thing left of the girl was a large, hourglass shaped bulge sliding slowly to the pythons stomach.

After a week, not even that remained.  Search teams were sent out to look for the girl, but she never turned up.  Neither did the snake that swallowed her.  That very python would go undetected for years until a wildlife expert found it coiled in that very tree.  

Next time you go out for a walk, take a look around you.  You may be surprised to find what might be lurking in your park.